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Merry Halloween Eve! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 30!
Tonight's Top Pick is from the newly rebranded GAC Family (RIP Great American Country) as it gets into the Christmas movie business with Much Ado About Christmas (GAC Family, 8 p.m.). However, this is to tell you to avoid the network, if it's available to you. The network is helmed by Bill Abbott, ex-CEO of The Hallmark Channel — you know, the guy who pulled an ad featuring two brides kissing — and the main investor is Tommy Hicks, majority stakeholder in OANN, and runs the America First Super PAC, which is part of an org that has a history of staff demonizing minorities and women as well as helped fund caravans to Washington for the January 6 insurrection.
Elsewhere, HBO goes to the Heights, Side Hustle recovers a stolen recipe, Frankie Drake searches for a ghost, Inspector Koo is on the case, even more TV Christmas movies, and Brandy Clark goes to the City Limits.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
📺 Doctor Who (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): Minotaur-esque aliens plot to invade Skonnos by creating a tunnel in time and space linked between two artificial black holes.
Frankie Drake Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): Nora is convinced she was visited by the ghost of a murdered woman, she makes Frankie and Trudy search their building.
🎥 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (E!, 6:05 p.m.): NEXT IN ORDER for $800: "...and the Sorcerer's Stone", "...and the Chamber of Secrets", "...and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (1 Jul 2017)
INTERNATIONAL & SPORTSBALL NOTICES:
Blue Period (Netflix, 3 a.m.): Episode 4
Inspector Koo (Netflix, 3 a.m., series premiere): South Korea
BRIEFLY: The Haunted Museum (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); TED Countdown (YouTube, 9 a.m., speical)
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 Coyote Creek Christmas (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): An event planner discovers Christmas magic with a charming father-son duo while throwing a themed Christmas party at her family's inn. Hashtag white people.
Danger Force (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): After Miles has a vision that Rick Twitler is still around, so Danger Force travels deep into the Man's Nest's to find him, running into an old foe along the way.
🎥 Frankenstein (TCM, 8 p.m.): HORROR MOVIES for $400: This 1931 film had the tagline "A monster science created but could not destroy!" (4 Oct 2019)
🎥 In the Heights (HBO, 8 p.m.): A film version of the Broadway musical comes to more traditional television. Usnavi, a sympathetic New York bodega owner, saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life. I watched it for Melissa Barrera.✔️
⭐🎥 Much Ado About Christmas (GAC Family, 8 p.m.): After Haley Lloyd has been burned by countless suitors, it's refreshing when shy but handsome Claud falls for her, unaware of her true identity: However, when that truth inevitably comes out, it puts their budding Christmas romance at risk.
Side Hustle (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.): A celebrity chef is in town, and he wants to sample some local Altoonisburg flavor. When his family steals Munchy's family's secret stew recipe, the kids must make something dangerously delicious to get it back, which sounds like they drug the family.
🎥 Torn from Her Arms (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): A mother and daughter who fled violence in El Salvador must find their way back to each other after being separated at the U.S. border and detained in detention centers in different states.
NOTICES:
2021 World Series, Game 4 (Fox): Houston Astros at Atlanta Braves
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)
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| In the Heights (via Tumblr) |
🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
📺 One Step Beyond (Decades, 9 p.m.): Spend the weekend with this suspense anthology that largely sits in the public domain. In this episode, "a newlywed couple rent a quaint cottage, unaware that the place is haunted."
This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? This is our weekly thread for you talk about it.
🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 The Christmas Promise (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 10 p.m.): A woman learns how to deal with grief, both through the help of her grandfather and the carpenter that renovates the home that was originally meant for her and her fiancé.
NOTICES:
NFL Icons (Epix): Jerry Rice
NFL Icons (Epix): Jerry Rice
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🎥 10 Cloverfield Lane (MTV 2, 11:30 p.m.): WE'RE GOING TO THE MOVIES for $1200: The ticket guy knows me, so I'm front row center for this 2016 monster movie sequel with an address for a title (9 Nov 2019)
📺 That Girl (Antenna TV, 11 p.m.): Ann is offered a high-fashion modeling assignment that means a trip to California.✔️
📺 The Time Tunnel (MeTV, 3 a.m.): In 1915, the travelers try to keep the ghost of Nero from taking revenge on a descendant of Nero's rival.
NOTICES:
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Brandy Clark, Charley Crockett
BRIEFLY: True Nightmares: Tales of Terror (Investigation Discovery, 11:30 p.m.)
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| That Girl (via Make a Gif) |
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Happy watching, everyone!
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